May 11, 2017 3:52pm EDTMay 11, 2017 1:27pm EDTNFL teams are sending a message that they will put anybody on a roster, no matter who they are or what they've done, before they sign Colin Kaepernick.Colin Kaepernick(Getty Images)

Tuesday marks two full months since NFL free agency began and Colin Kaepernick, who opted out of his 49ers contract, officially became available to every other team. As of Monday morning, he had not signed and, by all accounts, had not even been contacted by other teams.

The parade of mediocre, unaccomplished backups who have signed has been detailed more than enough by now. Kaepernick’s stats have been dissected, his video scrutinized, his medical history detailed. Rumors have been debunked and myths have been busted.

He protested racial oppression by sitting, then kneeling, during the national anthem last season. In the grand scheme of things, that's all that separates him from the masses in his category at his position this offseason. Pretending there’s anything else is a waste of breath and electricity.

Getting defensive about this obvious factor in his unemployment, and fabricating ever-wilder rationales for it (his vegan diet, for instance), has become a staple of this offseason. It has changed nothing, though.

In his weekly column at MMQB.com, Peter King broke down the current state of the most important position in the NFL, and not surprisingly, much of it was laughable. (The first name he listed: Tom Savage, Texans.)

But he added this about Kaepernick: He “has bought a place in downtown Manhattan and lives in the big city fairly anonymously." Some around the 49ers, King added, believe he “might actually rather do social justice work full-time than play quarterback." In a league with so many dire circumstances at the position, he wrote, “it’s crazy that a quarterback who four years ago was coming off a Super Bowl appearance and looked to be a long-term answer has no team now and no hot NFL prospects that anyone can see."

There’s a lot to chew on there about a man who’s been deemed toxic by a league that recently drafted a cornerback under rape investigation and multiple players who have beaten women. Even the notion that Kaepernick prefers working in the community to fighting upstream to get back into the NFL sounds less like another excuse not to sign him, and more like simple surrender to reality as time goes by.

The last couple of weeks in the life of the Kaepernick, the NFL and this country might put it all into perspective.

— The weekend of the draft, Kaepernick donated custom-made suits at a parole office in Queens, for those who are leaving incarceration, homelessness or victimization and need them to help them get jobs.

— Last weekend in Chicago, he held another Know Your Rights camp, like the one he held in Oakland last season, to educate youths about, among other things, their legal rights when encountering law enforcement. Former 49ers teammate Eric Reid, who joined him in his anthem protests last season, also joined him at the camp.

— Mike Glennon, recently given $18.5 million guaranteed to start for the Bears, was reduced to a placeholder when the Bears traded up to pick quarterback Mitchell Trubisky second overall in the draft.

— Riley Cooper, out of football last season — and known best for getting caught on video screaming racial slurs at a 2013 concert, and for being forgiven by his Eagles team and later receiving a contract extension — was invited to and participated in the Buccaneers’ rookie minicamp last weekend.

And in the world outside of football — specifically the world Kaepernick pointedly explained at the beginning was the target of his protests:

— The Balch Springs, Tex., police officer who shot and killed 15-year-old Jordan Edwards while the car he was in was driving away from him was charged with murder last week, after police originally claimed the car was driving toward the officer.

— Another 15-year-old boy in San Diego was killed by police last weekend while holding what turned out to be a BB gun.

— The North Charleston, S.C., officer who shot Walter Scott while he was running away — whose state trial had ended last December in a mistrial — pleaded guilty last week to federal civil rights charges.

— And the Department of Justice chose last week not to pursue federal charges against the officers in Baton Rouge, La., who last July shot and killed Alton Sterling while holding him down on the ground. This is significant because several pro athletes took to social media to protest this shooting, and were told by many to “stick to sports."